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net primary productivity

Net primary productivity is a measure of how much energy is captured through photosynthesis and converted to plant biomass. Net primary productivity is photosynthesis minus respiration.

Used to calculate:plant growth

Varies by: ecosystem

Used ecosystem Reference Location: Ecosystem
(study period)		 Value Units Notes
* Agricultural field / vegetable garden Lambers et. al. 1998 - Plant Physiological Ecology Global: Cultivated Land () 290 g C / m2 / year This value is the mean net primary productivity estimate for cultivated land worldwide.
* Airfield Assumed New York City: Urban Area () 0 g C / m2 / year
* Airport terminal Assumed New York City: Urban Area () 0 g C / m2 / year
* Alley Assumed New York City: Urban Area () 0 g C / m2 / year
* Apartment building Assumed New York City: Urban Area () 0 g C / m2 / year
* Beach Lichter - PRIMARY SUCCESSION AND FOREST DEVELOPMENT ONCOASTAL LAKE MICHIGAN SAND DUNES Michigan: Beach (1996-1998) 21.3 g C / m2 / year This value is the average annual rate of accumulation of carbon in living biomass (aboveground and belowground).
Beach Lambers et. al. 1998 - Plant Physiological Ecology Global: Rock, ice, and sand () 1.5 g C / m2 / year This value is the mean net primary productivity estimate for rock, ice, and sand worldwide.
* Bike lane Assumed New York City: Urban Area () 0 g C / m2 / year
* Bioswale de Gruchy et al. 2005 Biomass, productivity, and dominance... Bruce Peninsula National Park Bruce Peninsula National Park, Ontario, Canada: Meadow marsh (June - September 1999) 322 g / m2 / year This value assumes the same net primary productivity as a freshwater marsh.
* Boulevard (arterial) Assumed New York City: Urban Area () 0 g C / m2 / year
* Bridge Assumed New York City: Urban Area () 0 g C / m2 / year
* Camp Baker et al. 2007 Effect of consumption choices on fluxes of CNP through households Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN: Household (Early 2000s) 97 g C / m2 / year We assume the same net primary productivity as that of a lawn. This value refers to a lawn that had no management.
* Cemetery Baker et al. 2007 Effect of consumption choices on fluxes of CNP through households Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN: Household (Early 2000s) 230 g C / m2 / year This value refers to the net primary productivity of a moderately fertilized lawn with clippings removed.
* Cistern / rain barrels Assumed New York City: Urban Area () 0 g C / m2 / year
* Cliffs and rock outcrops de Gruchy et al. 2005 Biomass, productivity, and dominance... Bruce Peninsula National Park Bruce Peninsula National Park, Ontario, Canada: Carbonate open cliff (June - September 1999) 17 g / m2 / year Total productivity
Cliffs and rock outcrops de Gruchy et al. 2005 Biomass, productivity, and dominance... Bruce Peninsula National Park Bruce Peninsula National Park, Ontario, Canada: Carbonate treed cliff (June - September 1999) 83 g C / m2 / year This value refers to the total productivity.
* Cogeneration plant Assumed New York City: Urban Area () 0 g C / m2 / year
* Compost bin Assumed New York City: Urban Area () 0 g C / m2 / year
* Computer data center Assumed New York City: Urban Area () 0 g C / m2 / year
* Cottages / Mobile home Assumed New York City: Urban Area () 0 g C / m2 / year
* Deep water estuary Kirchman, David L. 2011 Processes in Microbial Ecology- Ch. 4 Microbial primary production and phototrophy Global: deep water estuary (2011) 125 g C / m2 / year
* Derelict structures Assumed New York City: Urban Area () 0 g C / m2 / year
* Diesel power plant Assumed New York City: Urban Area () 0 g C / m2 / year
* Disturbed Land Hutchison & Henry 2010- Additive Effects of Warming and Increased Nitrogen Deposition in a Temperate Old Field: Plant Productivity and the Importance of Winter London, Ontario, Canada: old field (2006-2008) 707 g / m2 / year This value refers to aboveground productivity and root biomass.
Disturbed Land Mellinger & McNaughton 1975 - Structure and Function of Successional Vascular Plant Communities in Central New York Onondaga County, New York: Old field () 2366.76816 g / m2 / year This value is the average community net productivity in dry weight. We converted g/m2/day to g/m2/year in order to receive an annual value.
* Eelgrass meadow Nelson & Waaland 1997 Seasonality of eelgrass, epiphyte, and grazer biomass.... San Juan Islands, Washington: Eelgrass meadows (July 1990 - July 1992) 1767 g / m2 / year annual production
* Elevated train Assumed New York City: Urban Area () 0 g C / m2 / year
* Estuary Howarth et al. 2006 - Wastewater and Watershed Influences etc. Lower Hudson River Estuary: Estuary () 270 g / m2 / year Pre-European settlement estimate for gross primary productivity
Estuary Taylor et al. 2003 - Planktonic Carbon Cycling and Transport etc. Haverstraw Bay ("HB"): Estuary (1996 -1998) 121839.08 mol C / m2 / year This value is the annual rate of net production of dissolved inorganic carbon (mol C/year/m2). We calculated this value by taking the net production (mol C/yr), dividing it by the area of study (km2), and then converting this value to mol C/m2/year. This value is for the segment of the lower Hudson River Estuary from Haverstraw Bay to the Verrazano Narrows.
* Factory Assumed New York City: Urban Area () 0 g C / m2 / year
* Freshwater marsh Jervis - Primary Production in the Freshwater Marsh Ecosystem of Troy Meadows New Jersey Troy Meadows, New Jersey: Freshwater Marsh (1956-1966) 1665.63 g / m2 / year This value is the average annual net primary productivity of four freshwater marshes
Freshwater marsh Mitsch 1993 Wetlands Sedge Meadow, New York - high: Freshwater Marsh (1977) 1078 g / m2 / year This value is the lowest reported net primary productivity for species Larex lacustris in a Sedge meadow in New York.
Freshwater marsh Mitsch 1993 Wetlands Sedge Meadow, New York - high: Freshwater Marsh (1977) 1741 g / m2 / year This value is the highest reported net primary productivity for species Larex lacustris in a Sedge meadow in New York.
Freshwater marsh de Gruchy et al. 2005 Biomass, productivity, and dominance... Bruce Peninsula National Park Bruce Peninsula National Park, Ontario, Canada: Cattail marsh (June - September 1999) 83 g / m2 / year Total productivity
Freshwater marsh de Gruchy et al. 2005 Biomass, productivity, and dominance... Bruce Peninsula National Park Bruce Peninsula National Park, Ontario, Canada: Meadow marsh (June - September 1999) 322 g / m2 / year Total productivity
* Fuel storage tank Assumed New York City: Urban Area () 0 g C / m2 / year
* Garage Assumed New York City: Urban Area () 0 g C / m2 / year
* Gas station Assumed New York City: Urban Area () 0 g C / m2 / year
* Geothermal pump Assumed New York City: Urban Area () 0 g C / m2 / year
* Graywater recycling Assumed New York City: Urban Area () 0 kg / m2 / yr
* Greenhouse / vertical farm Lambers et. al. 1998 - Plant Physiological Ecology Global: Cultivated Land () 290 g C / m2 / year We assume the same NPP as that of cultivated land used for agriculture. This value represents the mean net primary productivity for cultivated land worldwide.
* Green roof Coffman 2007- Vegetated Roof Systems: Design, Productivity, Retention, Habitat, and Sustainability in Green Roof and Ecoroof Technology Columbus, OH: green roof (Spring 2004) 72 g C / m2 / year This value refers to extensive green roof types, which have soil substrates less than 15 cm deep.
Green roof Coffman 2007- Vegetated Roof Systems: Design, Productivity, Retention, Habitat, and Sustainability in Green Roof and Ecoroof Technology Columbus, OH: green roof (Spring 2004) 193 g C / m2 / year This value refers to the productivity of intensive green roofs, which have soil substrate depths greater than 30 cm deep.
* Hardwood swamp Batzer et. al. 2007 - Ecology of Freshwater and Estuarine Wetlands South Carolina: Riverine Wetland Bottomland hardwood () 845 g / m2 / year This value is the annual aboveground net primary productivity.
Hardwood swamp Batzer et. al. 2007 - Ecology of Freshwater and Estuarine Wetlands Kentucky: Riverine Wetlands Bottomland Hardwood () 1334 g / m2 / year This value is the annual aboveground net primary productivity.
Hardwood swamp Batzer et. al. 2007 - Ecology of Freshwater and Estuarine Wetlands Louisiana : Riverine Wetlands Bottomland hardwood () 1374 g / m2 / year This value is the annual aboveground net primary productivity.
* Heavy rail line Assumed New York City: Urban Area () 0 g C / m2 / year
* Hemlock – northern hardwood forest Lambers et. al. 1998 - Plant Physiological Ecology Global: Temperate Deciduous Forest () 540 g C / m2 / year This value is the mean net primary productivity estimate for Temperate Deciduous Forests worldwide.
* High salt marsh Long, Mason 1983 - Saltmarsh Ecology New York: Salt marsh () 1790 g / m2 / year
* Highway Assumed New York City: Urban Area () 0 g C / m2 / year
* Hospital Assumed New York City: Urban Area () 0 g C / m2 / year
* Hotel Assumed New York City: Urban Area () 0 g C / m2 / year
* Landfill Assumed New York City: Urban Area () 0 g C / m2 / year
* Lawn Falk 1980 - The Primary Productivity of Lawns in a Temperate Environment The Smithsonian Institution, Chesapeake Bay Center for Environmental Studies, Washington D.C.: Lawn () 1649.3 g / m2 / year This value was the net primary productivity of Site B which was well maintained and fertilized at a rate of 550 kg/ha.
Lawn Baker et al. 2007 Effect of consumption choices on fluxes of CNP through households Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN: Household (Early 2000s) 347 g C / m2 / year This is the net primary productivity of a lawn which was highly fertilized and whose clippings were removed.
Lawn Dorney et al. 1984 Composition and structure of an urban woody plant community Shorewood, WI: Suburbia (Spring 1980) 2.75 metric tons per hectare per year
Lawn Baker et al. 2007 Effect of consumption choices on fluxes of CNP through households Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN: Household (Early 2000s) 283 g C / m2 / year This is the net primary productivity of a lawn which was moderately fertilized. Its clippings were left on the lawn.
Lawn Baker et al. 2007 Effect of consumption choices on fluxes of CNP through households Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN: Household (Early 2000s) 427 g C / m2 / year This is the net primary productivity of a lawn which was highly fertilized and whose clippings were left on.
Lawn Baker et al. 2007 Effect of consumption choices on fluxes of CNP through households Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN: Household (Early 2000s) 230 g C / m2 / year This is the net primary productivity of a lawn which was moderately fertilized and whose clippings were removed.
Lawn Baker et al. 2007 Effect of consumption choices on fluxes of CNP through households Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN: Household (Early 2000s) 97 g C / m2 / year This is the net primary productivity of a lawn that had no management.
Lawn Falk 1980 - The Primary Productivity of Lawns in a Temperate Environment The Smithsonian Institution, Chesapeake Bay Center for Environmental Studies, Washington D.C.: Lawn () 1669.2 g / m2 / year This value is the net primary productivity of Site A which was a 10-year-old lawn that had never been irrigated or fertilized and was cut about every two weeks during the growing season.
* Light rail line Assumed New York City: Urban Area () 0 g C / m2 / year
* Low salt marsh Long, Mason 1983 - Saltmarsh Ecology New York: Salt marsh () 1790 g / m2 / year
* Meadow Huston 2009. The global distribution of net primary production: resolving the paradox Global: Temperate Grasslands () 393 g C / m2 / year Current estimate (not historic)
* Mixed use: office / residential building Assumed New York City: Urban Area () 0 g C / m2 / year
* Mixed use: restaurant / office building Assumed New York City: Urban Area () 0 g C / m2 / year
* Mixed use: restaurant / residential building Assumed New York City: Urban Area () 0 g C / m2 / year
* Mixed use: restaurant / retail building Assumed New York City: Urban Area () 0 kg / m2 / yr
* Mixed use: retail / office building Assumed New York City: Urban Area () 0 g C / m2 / year
* Mixed use: retail / residential building Assumed New York City: Urban Area () 0 g C / m2 / year
* Natural gas power plant Assumed New York City: Urban Area () 0 g C / m2 / year
* Oak hickory forest Lambers et. al. 1998 - Plant Physiological Ecology Global: Temperate Deciduous Forest () 540 g C / m2 / year This value is the mean net primary productivity estimate for Temperate Deciduous Forests worldwide.
* Office building Assumed New York City: Urban Area () 0 g C / m2 / year
* Orchard Faqi et. al. 2007 - Net primary production and nutrient cycling in an apple orchard Loess Plateau, China: Apple Orchard () 5.93 short tons/ ha / year This is the net primary productivity of qinguan apples.
Orchard Faqi et. al. 2007 - Net primary production and nutrient cycling in an apple orchard Loess Plateau, China: Apple Orchard () 3.97 short tons/ ha / year This is the net primary productivity of a fuji apple orchard.
* Ornamental garden Dorney et al. 1984 Composition and structure of an urban woody plant community Shorewood, WI: Suburbia (Spring 1980) 0.49 kg / m2 / yr
Ornamental garden Esser et al. 2000. Osnabrück Net Primary Productivity Data Set USA (34 deg latitude/-118 deg longitude): Pasture (1966) 2720 g / m2 / year Total net primary productivity. Data from Adegbola, A.R., et al. 1966, for Cynodon dactylon fertilized pasture
Ornamental garden Esser et al. 2000. Osnabrück Net Primary Productivity Data Set USA: Pasture (1965) 2600 g / m2 / year Total net primary productivity. Data from Ashley, D.A., et al. 1965 for irrigated and fertilized, Cynodon dactylon dominated pasture
* Parking lot Assumed New York City: Urban Area () 0 g C / m2 / year
* Park savanna Nowak, David and Crane, Daniel 2001 Carbon storage and sequestration by urban trees in the USA United States: ecological (2001) 120 g C / m2 / year
* Paved ball field/court Assumed New York City: Urban Area () 0 g C / m2 / year
* Pedestrian bridge Assumed New York City: Urban Area () 0 g C / m2 / year
* Pedestrian street / plaza Assumed New York City: Urban Area () 0 g C / m2 / year
* Permeable pavers Assumed New York City: Urban Area () 0 g C / m2 / year
* Photovoltaic panels Assumed New York City: Urban Area () 0 g C / m2 / year
* Pier Assumed New York City: Urban Area () 0 g C / m2 / year
* Pond Lindeman 1942 Trophic-dynamic aspect of ecology Lake Mendota, Wisconsin: Temperate lake (1930s-1940s) 480 g / cm2 / year Net productivity. Original units: g-cal/cm2/year
Pond Westlake 1963 Comparison of Plant Productivity Lake Erken, Sweden: Eutrophic lake (1954) 2 metric tons per hectare per year annual mean productivity (dry weight); mid-point value between 1.5 - 2.5 mt/ha-year; includes diatoms
Pond Lindeman 1942 Trophic-dynamic aspect of ecology Cedar Bog Lake, Minnesota: Eutrophic lake (1930s-1940s) 111.3 g / cm2 / year Net productivity. Original units: g-cal/cm2/year
* Public assembly hall Assumed New York City: Urban Area () 0 g C / m2 / year
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* Restaurant Assumed New York City: Urban Area () 0 g C / m2 / year
* Retail building Assumed New York City: Urban Area () 0 g C / m2 / year
* School or university Assumed New York City: Urban Area () 0 g C / m2 / year
* Sewage treatment plant Assumed New York City: Urban Area () 0 g C / m2 / year
* Shrub land Lambers et. al. 1998 - Plant Physiological Ecology Global: Woodland and shrubland () 270 g C / m2 / year This value is the mean net primary productivity estimate for woodland and shrubland worldwide.
* Sidewalk Assumed New York City: Urban Area () 0 g C / m2 / year
* Single family home Assumed New York City: Urban Area () 0 g C / m2 / year
* Solar energy facility Assumed New York City: Urban Area () 0 g C / m2 / year
* Solar heating panels Assumed New York City: Urban Area () 0 g C / m2 / year
* Solid waste transfer plant Assumed New York City: Urban Area () 0 g C / m2 / year
* Stadium Assumed New York City: Urban Area () 0 g / cm2 / year
* Stream Lambers et. al. 1998 - Plant Physiological Ecology Global: Lake and stream () 225 g C / m2 / year This value is the mean net primary productivity estimate for lakes and streams worldwide.
* Streetcar line Assumed New York City: Urban Area () 0 g C / m2 / year
* Street (collector) Assumed New York City: Urban Area () 0 g C / m2 / year
* Street trees Nowak & Crane 2002- Carbon storage and sequestration by urban trees in the USA New York City: urban area (1996-1999) 120 g C / m2 / year
Street trees Nowak et al. 2007 New York City's Urban Forest New York City: Urban forest (1996) 0.21 short tons C per acre per year carbon sequestration rate
* Subway Assumed New York City: Urban Area () 0 g C / m2 / year
* Swimming pool Assumed New York City: Urban Area () 0 g C / m2 / year
* Tidal energy facility Assumed New York City: Urban Area () 0 g C / m2 / year
* Traffic slowed street Assumed New York City: Urban Area () 0 g C / m2 / year
* Trail Assumed New York City: Urban Area () 0 g / m2 / year
* Tunnel Assumed New York City: Urban Area () 0 g C / m2 / year
* Utility yard Assumed New York City: Urban Area () 0 g C / m2 / year
* Warehouse Assumed New York City: Urban Area () 0 g C / m2 / year
* Waste energy power plant Assumed New York City: Urban Area () 0 g C / m2 / year
* Water treatment plant Assumed New York City: Urban Area () 0 g C / m2 / year
* Water/wastewater storage tank Assumed New York City: Urban Area () 0 g C / m2 / year
* Wind farm Assumed New York City: Urban Area () 0 g C / m2 / year

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